git push assumes that you already have a remote repository defined for that branch. In this case, the default remote origin is used. git push origin master indicates that you are pushing to a specific remote, in this case, origin. This would only matter if you created multiple remote repositories in your code base. If … Read more
Git does not support per-branch excludes files You’re trying to achieve something that Git does not support. The blog post is the original source of this hoax that the Stack Overflow answer only parroted. As noted in comments under that answer, even the original blog post contains a discussion that brings out that the solution … Read more
Given that Git uses a directed acyclic graph and usually a repo only has one root, all your branches point back to one initial commit. So what you actually want is the branch that shares the largest part of its history with your branch. You cannot just look for a branch whose HEAD is contained … Read more
This depends in part how you’ve done your 100+ commits and what’s been happening in the meantime. Four strategies might be useful: Reduce the number of commits to rebase If you have a beautiful clear stream of 100 commits that never modify the same code twice, I’m sorry, but you are stuck. However, from 100 … Read more
I just had that same issue while running git clone … to download source code from a private Git repository in BitBucket into a Docker image. I solved it by disabling the SSL check like so: GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=1 git clone … Notice that there is no && between the Environment arg and the git clone command. … Read more
With git 2.8 (Q12016), you will be able to initiate the fetch of submodules… in parallel! See commit fbf7164 (16 Dec 2015) by Jonathan Nieder (artagnon). See commit 62104ba, commit fe85ee6, commit c553c72, commit bfb6b53, commit b4e04fb, commit 1079c4b (16 Dec 2015) by Stefan Beller (stefanbeller). (Merged by Junio C Hamano — gitster — in … Read more
Git is confused, because 12382 looks like a commit hash. Use the fully qualified name to checkout the branch: git checkout refs/heads/12382 — or, if it’s a remote branch: git checkout refs/remotes/origin/12382 —
These are three different commands: Git pull is a git fetch followed by git merge – read here Git fetch fetches info about remote repositories – read here Git sync does everything in one command meaning pull and push read here If you want to compare git and svn workflow then git pull is like … Read more
Use the –word-diff option for git diff For example, git diff –word-diff=color: and git diff –word-diff=plain: There’s also –word-diff-regex=<regex> See git help diff for more info.
Vi is giving you a hint about “properly” formatting your commit message. While there is no specific enforcement of one message style w.r.t. another, “traditionally” Git commit messages are structured this way: A short title describing the changeset (usually less than 50-60 characters); One blank line; A more complete description of the commit, optionally divided … Read more